BUSINESSMAN Vance Miller, whose kitchen company was subject to Britain's largest trading standards raid yet, is in trouble once again.

He has now been banned from selling 500 mini motorbikes because of safety issues and ordered to remove them from sale immediately.

But Mr Miller, who was once based in Caldershaw, is defiant and has vowed to export them instead to South Africa where he has found a buyer.

Trading standards found that the off-road vehicles contained dangerous flaws, including a lack of chain guards, problems with fuel tanks and a lack of safety instructions.

Mr Miller said: "I've already got a buyer in South Africa. They can't stop me exporting them there and that's what I'm doing."

The bikes were discovered at his kitchen firm's Oldham base in November during part of the trading standards raid.

Tony Allen, head of trading standards at Oldham, said: "The chains were dangerously exposed. If a rider was to lose their balance, which is easily done on these things, they would put their foot straight through it."

The order bans Mr Miller from selling the bikes in Britain and Mr Allen said officials are in contact with the European Commission to extend the order to cover the continent.

But he admitted that even if that happened the trader could shift his attention to countries with which there was no reciprocal agreement.

Mr Miller is already banned from being a company director, but there is no legislation to stop him from trading in unlicensed goods.

After the raid on his kitchen company Mr Miller told the Observer that the Department of Trade and Industry was trying to close him down because he was selling a product which British industry could not compete with.